by Justin Marple | Jul 2, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
The Book of Leviticus is a book of good news because it teaches the forgiveness of sins through the appointed blood of atonement. Not that the blood of bulls and goats actually takes away sins (cf. Heb 10:4), but it points us to the blood that does — that of...
by Justin Marple | Jun 20, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
Lev 17:10-12 makes an interesting point worth quoting: “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life...
by Justin Marple | Jun 16, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
What follows is a list of some New Testament texts that assume information learned in Lev 11-16:Matt 8:2-4 [Mark 1:40-45][Luke 5:12-15]Matt 15:11, 17-20 [Mark 7:18-19, 20-23]Matt 9:20 [Mark 5:25ff] [Luke 8:43ff]Matt 10:8, 11:5 [Luke 7:22]Matt 23:25-26Matt 23:27Mark...
by Justin Marple | Jun 14, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
As the chart of Lev 8-10 reveals, the third panel (Lev 10) does not tell of Moses or Aaron offering sacrifices but instead says, “You are to distinguish between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean. And you are to teach the people of...
by Justin Marple | Jun 11, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
Remembering that the laws were situated in a narrative framework, the narrative continues with the story of the ordination setting apart Aaron and his sons as priests. But these three chapters are set apart because while the rest of Leviticus has a narrative...
by Justin Marple | May 29, 2009 | Leviticus Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
In preparing this post I am selectively looking at commentaries by Gordon Wenham (1979) NICOT and S.H. Kellogg (1891). I would also recommend Tremper Longman III’s Immanuel in Our Place: Seeing Christ in Israel’s Worship in The Gospel according to the Old...
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